Umbrella handle



Oct. 11, 1927.

J.. M. DELLING ER UMBRELLA HANDLE Filed July 10 1926 Inventor I John M'flel ling'er by MS A1101 my I m U Ti 7111 Patented Oct. 11 1927.

1,645,497 PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. DELLINGER, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO' FOLIJHER CLOGG & COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

UMBRELLA HANDLE.

Application filed July 10, 1926. Serial No. 121,629.

My improved device holds the tips of the umbrella ribs in an annular depression formed in the handle, which is telescopically movable with reference to portions of my device that are positioned fixedly with reference to the umbrella shank. To these parts or one of them, is secured the cord by which the umbrella is intended to be carried. The general form of umbrella handle used in my device is a somewhat specialized one, which is intended to be grasped in the hand, only whenthe umbrella is raised as a protection. When not so raised the umbrella is carried by the carrying cord, which is slipped over the arm, and in my device is not attached directly to the handle.

Fig. 1 is a section of my improved device. Fig. 2 is an elevation of it. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Figs. 1 and 2.

The handle, 13, has a socket in which the telescoping parts of my device are contained and a cup, 11, at its end towards the frame, formed by the annular retainer, 14, that is integral with the body of the handle. The

tips, of the ribs, 4, 4, are confined between the retainer and the shank, 15, when the handle is telescoped towards the frame. The handle has also a slot, 19, through which the carrying cords, 7, 7, pass freely.

The shank, 5, has a stud that is secured immovably to it and which moves telescopically in the socket in the handle, 13. The cords, 7, are secured to this stud. The handle has, in its socket, the sleeve, 3, which is positioned fixedly in this socket. Stops serve to limit the extent of the telescopic motion of the handle on the stud attached to the shank, as will be described below.

The stud which is fixedly attached to the shank, I form in practice as described below, the particular construction I will now describe having advantages peculiar to itself. The sleeve, 6, fits within the sleeve, 3, forming the linin of the socket in the handle and has inside it the plug, 9, that usually I make of wood, and has also the crosswise pin passing through the walls near its end away from the shank, to which the cords, 7, 7, can be anchored by being tied thereto. The plug, 9, is secured in any suitable manner, and is secured by any suitable means to the sleeve, 6, and has at its end towards the shank, 5, a mortise into which a tenon, 17, is fitted and secured, usually glued. This tenon is formed to fit the mortise. As shanks are irregular in shape and vary in size, this enables a smgle size of the sleeve, 6, tobe used with many kinds of shanks. Itv has also the cup,

shank 15, in the handle, 13. These elements,

form coacting antirotating guides, for preventing the stud from turning in the socket. This plugstiffens the sleeve, 6.

The sleeve, 3, fits very closely over the sleeve, 6, so that there will be considerable friction in opposition to their telescopic movement. I usually roughen the outer face of the sleeve 3, and make it fit the mortise in the handle, 13, very snugly, so that it can be glued very firmly in position in it.

The stop, 8, regulating the extent of the telescopioaction in the direction of its extending 1s in practice a pin extendin through the walls of the sleeve, 3, to which t is secured, and moving in the slot, 20, in the sleeve, 6, and in the slot, 1, in the plug, 9, the end of these slots forming the cooperatmg stop on the stud. The indrawing telescopic action is very conveniently stopped by the projecting ends of the pin, 2, contacting with the top of the sleeve, 3, or it may be stopped by a shoulder, 21.

The most practical construction of the device is to assemble the sleeves, 3, and 6, the plug, 9, and the pins, 2, and 8, into a single structure, pass the cords through the slot, 19, and tie them to the pin, 2, push this structure into the mortise in the handle, 13, and glue the sleeve, 3, fast therein, and then glue the tenon 17, in the mortise in the plug, 9.

When the umbrella is carried by the cords, 7, 7, the handle, 13, will not. be impelled to any telescopic movement because the cords, 7, 7, will carry the weight of the umbrella directly to the arm entirely independent of the handle. Friction between the stud and its socket will therefore hold it in position to retain the tips of the ribs, 4. On grasping the handle, 13, and, if needful, giving a shake, the handle will telescope on the stud, and release the ribs and the umbrella can be opened. When ward from its end toward its shank, a slot,

extending through said handle from the inner end of this socket to the top of the handle and anintegral tip cup,a studimmovably secured to the shank and slidable longitudinally in said socket in combination with a-stop regulating the distance of the movement of. said stud in said socket so that the distance said stud can be withdrawn from the socket is limited to clearing the tip cup and the ribs, and a carrying cord passing through said slot in said handle and movable freely th-erethrough and secured within said handle to the said stud.

2. In an umbrella comprising ribs, a shank and a handle having a longitudinal socket therein extending from the end of the handle toward the shank but not extending to the top of the handle, a slot in said handle,

extending from the inner end of said socket to the top of said handle and an integral tip cup formed of the material of the handle, the combination of a stud immovably secured to said shank and slidable longitudinally in said socket, a stop limiting the movement of the stud in the socket to a length sufiicient to clear the ribs from the tip cup, a carrying cord passing freely through said slot in said handle and an anchorage for said cord iinmovably secured to said stud to which the said cord is attached inside the handle, said socket and said stud being provided with mutually coacting anti-rotation guides.

In an umbrella having a wooden shank and a handle with a tip cup integral therewith. and a socket extending longitudinally therein the combination of a stud secured to the shank and formed of a sleeve and a wooden plug contained in said sleeve, said stud sliding longitudinally in the said socket, and said plug having a mortise therein into which a tenon formedof a cut down end of the shank 1s fitted and secured, the said han dle being provided with a slot extending from the inner end of the socket to the tip of the handle, and the said umbrella being provided with a carrying cord passing freely through said slot in said handle and anchored within said handle to said stud.

JOHN M. DELLINGER. 

